The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 17

One thing was clear, if she did not change her conduct very shortly he would have to send her away from court.

Who acts: One thing, woman, prince · What happens: be, not change, have, send, conduct · To what, where: conduct, woman

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One thing, woman, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thing	nummod
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clear	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 change	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 change	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 change	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 change	advmod
10	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clear	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 conduct	nmod:poss
12	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 shortly	advmod
14	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 change	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 send	mark
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 send	obj
21	away	away	ADV	_	19 send	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 court	case
23	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 away	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	One thing		clear property	tree rules
2	not change a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	woman	woman's conduct		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient
3	have	would	prince		shortly property	tree rules
4	send	to-infinitive	prince not said here	woman	away property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	conduct		woman			nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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